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The Bizarre and Odd: A Collection of Three Short Stories

by Tamara Williams ...

In "The Promotion", Sonny Whicker, a scientist for a top secret division, seeks answers from his colleague, Fran, about their suspicious company. What he finds is something more unsettling than the disclosure on the existence of aliens."Snow Globes" tells the story of an anxious mother coming clean to a Florida detective about her knowledge on the spring of murders in the area. Her relations to ... Read more

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In "The Promotion", Sonny Whicker, a scientist for a top secret division, seeks answers from his colleague, Fran, about their suspicious company. What he finds is something more unsettling than the disclosure on the existence of aliens."Snow Globes" tells the story of an anxious mother coming clean to a Florida detective about her knowledge on the spring of murders in the area. Her relations to
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Truth and Lies

by Tamara Williams ...

Series series Lorimer SideStreets
When Erin arrives for class at Oshawa Secondary, she learns that her friend Marcel has been badly beaten up. She immediately wonders whether it was a gay-bashing, or whether he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.Marcel is in a coma, so she has no clues to help her. As far as she knows he doesn't have any enemies, but there are plenty of guys at school who don't hide their hateful ... Read more

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When Erin arrives for class at Oshawa Secondary, she learns that her friend Marcel has been badly beaten up. She immediately wonders whether it was a gay-bashing, or whether he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.Marcel is in a coma, so she has no clues to help her. As far as she knows he doesn't have any enemies, but there are plenty of guys at school who don't hide their hateful
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Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

by Eitan Fishbane, PhD, Arnold Eisen, PhD, Rabbi Rachel Adler, PhD, Tamara Eskenazi, PhD ...

Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists ... Read more

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Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists
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Giving Life to Movement

The Silvestre Dance Technique

by Tamara LaDonna Williams (Ifákẹ́mi Ṣàngóbámikẹ́ Moṣebọ́látán) ...

What does it mean to give life to movement? Tamara Williams answers this question through an ethnographic study and historical mapping of the Silvestre Dance Technique created by Brazilian master teacher, dancer, and choreographer, Rosangela Silvestre. In the first book solely dedicated to Silvestre Technique, Williams illustrates how the applied theory of the triangles of inspiration, expression ... Read more

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What does it mean to give life to movement? Tamara Williams answers this question through an ethnographic study and historical mapping of the Silvestre Dance Technique created by Brazilian master teacher, dancer, and choreographer, Rosangela Silvestre. In the first book solely dedicated to Silvestre Technique, Williams illustrates how the applied theory of the triangles of inspiration, expression
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Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity

Framing the Twentieth Century

Edited by Julia R. Brown, Radmila Stefkova, Tamara R. Williams ...

Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Art
The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person.By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this ... Read more

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The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person.By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this
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Inventing the Almost Impossible

Creating, Teaching, Funding, and Leading Radical Innovation

Edited by Tamara Carleton, Shaun West, William R. Cockayne ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
Looking to pioneer scientific and technological breakthroughs that create entirely new industries? This book serves as your guide. It goes beyond patents, diving deep into the intersection of foresight, engineering, and business. Explore how teams at renowned organizations such as ARPA-E, IKEA, and H2 Green Steel create radical innovation. Through critical analysis, industry case studies, and ... Read more

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Looking to pioneer scientific and technological breakthroughs that create entirely new industries? This book serves as your guide. It goes beyond patents, diving deep into the intersection of foresight, engineering, and business. Explore how teams at renowned organizations such as ARPA-E, IKEA, and H2 Green Steel create radical innovation. Through critical analysis, industry case studies, and
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The Thirteenth Chair (Unabridged)

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Narrated by Lee Williams, Tamara Williams, Gloria Jacobsen, Ronald Ramirez ...

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Your best friend has been murdered, stabbed in the back, and the police haven't been able to solve the case. You have consulted with the best detective in the area. You have asked friends and neighbors about the crime. You have even offered a very generous reward, without result. How far would you go for to solve the murder of the chap who saved your life? Would you lock yourself in a dark room ... Read more

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Your best friend has been murdered, stabbed in the back, and the police haven't been able to solve the case. You have consulted with the best detective in the area. You have asked friends and neighbors about the crime. You have even offered a very generous reward, without result. How far would you go for to solve the murder of the chap who saved your life? Would you lock yourself in a dark room
... Read more
Building Moonshots

50+ Ways To Turn Radical Ideas Into Reality

by Tamara Carleton, William Cockayne ...

Solve the world’s biggest problems and create a better futureIn Building Moonshots: 50+ Ways to To Turn Radical Ideas Into Reality, a team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service.Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been ... Read more

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Solve the world’s biggest problems and create a better futureIn Building Moonshots: 50+ Ways to To Turn Radical Ideas Into Reality, a team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service.Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been
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In My Shoes

A Memoir

by Tamara Mellon, William Patrick ...

When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: “Don’t let the accountants run your business.” Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years, the struggle between “financial” and “creative” would become one of the central themes as Mellon’s business savvy, creative eye, and flair for design built Jimmy Choo into a premier name in the ... Read more

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When Tamara Mellon’s father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: “Don’t let the accountants run your business.” Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years, the struggle between “financial” and “creative” would become one of the central themes as Mellon’s business savvy, creative eye, and flair for design built Jimmy Choo into a premier name in the
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Muslim Minorities in the West

Visible and Invisible

by Abdelhamid Lotfi, Kathleen Moore, Agha Saheed, Robert M. Dannin, Khalid Fattah Griggs, Garbi Schmidt, Gary David, Sylviane A. Diouf, Saphinaz-Amal Naguib, James Helicke, A H. Johns, Samina Yasmeen, William Shepard, Tamara Sonn, John Voll ...

Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country. While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their streets, misperceptions and stereotypes remain. With expanding numbers and desires to protect ... Read more

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Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country. While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their streets, misperceptions and stereotypes remain. With expanding numbers and desires to protect
... Read more
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

A Human Dumping Ground

by Jonathan D. Rosen, Marten W. Brienen, Astrid Arrarás, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Adrián Bonilla, Nashira Chávez, Sebastián A. Cutrona, Lucía Dammert, Manuel Dammert Guardia0, Khatchik DerGhougassian1, Brian Fonseca2, Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor3, Pamela Pamelá4, Susan Phillips5, Christa L. Remington6, Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich7, Tamara Rice Lave8, Randy Seepersad9, Dianne Williams0, Roberto Zepeda Martínez1, W. Andy Knight2 ...

Series series Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy ... Read more

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This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy
... Read more
Music Education on the Verge

Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change

by Judy Lewis, Luiz Claudio M. Barcellos, Marsha Baxter, Marie-Louise Bowe, Sheelagh Chadwick, Nils Klykken, Tiago Madalozzo, Michelle Mercier-De Shon, Jerod Sommerfeldt, Tamara Thies0, Michelle Amosu Thomas1, William L. Lake2, Albert R. Lee3, Nicholas Ryan McBride4, Vivian Agnolo Madalozzo5, Emmett James O’Leary6, Jace Kaholokula Saplan7, Jonathan G. Schaller8, Angelita Vander Broock9, Regiana Blank Wille0, Patrick K. Freer2, Andrea Maas3 ...

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world causing physical, emotional, economic, and social upheaval in every part of the globe. It also catalyzed a renewed interrogation, by music education faculty in higher education, of philosophies and practices that had long gone unexamined.Music Education on the Verge: Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change is a collection of ... Read more

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In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world causing physical, emotional, economic, and social upheaval in every part of the globe. It also catalyzed a renewed interrogation, by music education faculty in higher education, of philosophies and practices that had long gone unexamined.Music Education on the Verge: Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change is a collection of
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